Grow food you can actually eat. Edible gardening guides for vegetables, fruit, and herbs from seed to harvest, with sowing dates, spacing, watering, and tips for a bigger, tastier crop in beds, rows, or containers.
Planting pumpkin seeds at the wrong time dooms your fall harvest. Learn to time sowing by frost dates, warm soil to 70F, and set the right depth and spacing.
Pine nuts are pricey for good reason. Learn which pine species are edible, how to harvest cones, grow your own pinyon or stone pine, and store the seeds.
A pineapple plant is the famous free project: root the top off a grocery-store fruit. Learn to grow Ananas comosus indoors, force it to flower, and harvest.
Pimento is the sweet red pepper in olives and pimento cheese. Learn to grow it from seed, ripen it deep red, harvest, then roast, peel, and preserve the crop.
A persimmon tree gives glowing fall fruit, but the wrong pick puckers your mouth. Learn American vs Asian types, astringent vs not, planting, and harvest.
A pear tree gives decades of fruit, but only if you match it to your climate, plant a compatible partner, and prune lightly to dodge fire blight. Here is how.
Passion fruit is easy once you give the vine strong support, balanced feeding, and good pollination. Here is how to grow, pollinate, prune, and harvest it.
A peach tree can give you 50 to 150 pounds of fruit a summer once you match the variety to your chill hours. Learn to plant, prune, thin, and beat leaf curl.
Nightshade vegetables like tomato, potato, and pepper spark needless fear. Get the edible list, honest solanine facts, and the rotation rule gardeners need.
Many gardeners fear a mulberry tree for its stains and birds, yet it gives sweet fruit you cannot buy and fast shade with almost no care.
Navel orange trees yield the premier sweet, seedless eating orange, but they are frost-sensitive and ripen only on the tree. Learn to grow and harvest them.
A Meyer lemon tree gives you sweet, thin-skinned lemons at home. Learn the light, watering, pollination, and overwintering tricks that keep one fruiting.